The DEA is shocked, and realizes just how big the drug problem in the United States was. ... In March 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a report on various aspects of marijuana, including the so-called, Gateway Theory (the theory that using marijuana leads people to use harder drugs like cocaine and heroin). ... The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on marijuana explained that marijuana has been mistaken for a gateway drug in the past because "Patterns in progression of drug use from adolescence to adulthood are strikingly regular. ... The same survey reports, "The rate of past mon...

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The DEA is shocked, and realizes just how big the drug problem in the United States was. ... In March 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a report on various aspects of marijuana, including the so-called, Gateway Theory (the theory that using marijuana leads people to use harder drugs like cocaine and heroin). ... The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on marijuana explained that marijuana has been mistaken for a gateway drug in the past because "Patterns in progression of drug use from adolescence to adulthood are strikingly regular. ... The same survey reports, "The rate of past...

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Unfortunately, at the same time, the FBI was reporting dramatic increases in the national crime rate. In the 1960s, crime rates rose for about 10 years; reported street crime quadrupled, and homicide rates doubled. ... Black activists started campaigning for what later became the notorious Rockefeller drug laws and other unreasonable sentencing measures. ... The emergence of crack cocaine, which was largely started by corrupt politicians one could argue, was sensationalized in the media. ... As a nation, we had a choice about how to respond. ...

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The underground society of weed smokers Outline Although weed is an illegal drug an underground society still exists that utilizes sellers of the product to satisfy the consumers in the society whose unique techniques for achieving effects that they want from the drug. I. There are personal use...

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• Grade Level: High School